.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has actually completed near the top of the award table at every summertime Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose certainly not to join objection at the video games being held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian crew was officially outlawed, athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to gain 71 medals and finish fifth. However this effectiveness will certainly not be redoed in Paris. Just a small number of Russians were welcomed much of all of them have refused to contend. Why?